4.14.2025:
4.12.2025
#housing
Being able to afford a loan for a home is not the same as being able to afford one.
The change we should seek in housing costs is construction and resale affordability, not bankers' participation in housing costs. Fuck the bankers; they have exploited and hindered families for long enough.
#banker bastards; it's judgment times bitches, smarten the fuck up.
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#FirstAmendment
Is there a list of things the fascist in the Oval Office will allow visitors to the U.S. to demonstrate about?
Is protesting the legality of convicted felons being allowed to enter a democratically elected office, okay with #Trump? Will that get a visitor deported?
I'm a legal Mean Card holder who wants to know.
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I know I don’t get worthwhile numbers of impression traffic on this account due to X’s choke on search crawls and link views, but this pisses me off:
April 2025:
“Andreas Schleicher, the head of education and skills at the O.E.C.D., told The Financial Times, “Thirty percent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child.” He continued, “It is actually hard to imagine that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.””
From www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opinion/education-smart-thinking-reading-tariffs.html
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We must begin to take our #democracy seriously and enact #VoterTesting in every state.
We have a CRISIS of STUPIDITY; Trump's illogical tariff adventures, and that tens of millions of ignorant Americans accept it is proof the crisis is upon us.
NYT opinions, "He continued, “It is actually hard to imagine — that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.”
THEY VOTED FOR HIM and REASONABLE people could not believe it, for good REASON. 🙄
If they can not comprehend an essay, they can not comprehend the mad man's ramblings and lies and we allow them to change our lives based on their bullshit. It's a crisis.
I propose; American History, Civics and Current Events become the subjects of three necessary test components needed to become a Tested Registered Voter, an esteemed citizen.
Is voter testing VOTER SUPPRESSION?
NO; it is good voter and good representative government encouragement!
Once a would-be voter has passed their History and Civics components, the only inconvenience to voting they will face is taking the very important Current Events test every four years to remain a TRV. All tests will be written by local high school teachers for a High School level, so all thinking adults who want to vote can pass.
It can be a new day for the United States. The birth of reason all over again. Wise legislation based on evidence and logic will become normal as the founders envisioned. We can become a nation passing laws that allow us to operate based on the same information, not false impressions of reality.
More reading: endallsuffering.blogspot.com
#voterTesting NOW, before it's too late and more idiots get into politics.
jamesgmason.com
EndAllSuffering.blogspot.com
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#FridayThoughts on #ChinaTrade
China will now raise its Trump Trade War retaliation tariff on American imports to %142.
I'm wondering today, what on Earth do Americans produce for the Chinese people?
Who around here is making low furniture and small shoes?